Table 1.
Numbers and percentages of patients with cancer included in the analysis, by sex; showing distribution across deprivation groups at both individual-level and LSOA-level and across cancer types. Data source: ONS LS.
| Men | % | Women | % | |
| Occupation (individual) | ||||
| Managerial/professional | 1769 | 37% | 1430 | 30% |
| Intermediate | 1114 | 23% | 1449 | 31% |
| Manual/technical/routine | 1943 | 40% | 1842 | 39% |
| Education (individual) | ||||
| Degree-level or higher | 1212 | 25% | 1108 | 23% |
| A-levels | 333 | 7% | 320 | 7% |
| Apprenticeship/vocational training | 846 | 19% | 327 | 7% |
| 5+ GCSEs | 372 | 8% | 653 | 14% |
| 1 to 4 GCSEs | 334 | 7% | 570 | 12% |
| No qualifications | 1729 | 34% | 1743 | 37% |
| Income (individual)* | ||||
| Least deprived | 627 | 12% | 732 | 16% |
| Q2 | 818 | 17% | 940 | 20% |
| Q3 | 1134 | 24% | 941 | 20% |
| Q4 | 1113 | 23% | 1201 | 25% |
| Most deprived | 1134 | 24% | 907 | 19% |
| Occupation (LSOA)* | ||||
| Least deprived | 732 | 15% | 760 | 16% |
| Q2 | 863 | 18% | 899 | 19% |
| Q3 | 1051 | 22% | 966 | 21% |
| Q4 | 1048 | 22% | 1005 | 21% |
| Most deprived | 1132 | 23% | 1091 | 23% |
| Education (LSOA)* | ||||
| Least deprived | 773 | 16% | 755 | 16% |
| Q2 | 878 | 18% | 928 | 20% |
| Q3 | 1014 | 21% | 926 | 20% |
| Q4 | 1060 | 22% | 1030 | 22% |
| Most deprived | 1101 | 23% | 1082 | 23% |
| Income (LSOA)* | ||||
| Least deprived | 710 | 15% | 725 | 15% |
| Q2 | 820 | 17% | 823 | 18% |
| Q3 | 989 | 20% | 1018 | 22% |
| Q4 | 1137 | 24% | 1049 | 22% |
| Most deprived | 1170 | 24% | 1106 | 23% |
| Cancer type | ||||
| Breast (C50) | – | – | 3330 | 71% |
| Colon (C18) | 692 | 14% | 608 | 13% |
| Rectal (C19 to C21) | 521 | 11% | 349 | 7% |
| Prostate (C61) | 2840 | 59% | – | – |
| Bladder (C67) | 395 | 8% | 130 | 3% |
| NHL (C82 to C86) | 378 | 8% | 304 | 6% |
| Total | 4826 | 4721 |
*Note that quintiles are calculated across the whole population, therefore numbers of patients with cancer in each quintile are not necessary evenly divided.
GCSE, General Certificate of Secondary Education; LSOA, Lower-level Super Output Area; NHL, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; ONS LS, Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study.